THE SANDALLED ANEMONE. 
mones W’cre hanging from hcneatli the little points and 
projecting ledges. 
In describing these specimens, I suggested the possibility 
that they might be referred to the Actinia alba of Mr. W. 
P. Cocks.* The absence of the bright yellow dots that 
were found on the mouth of the latter, and the entire want 
of visible suckers, induced me to consider mine as unde- 
scribed. It is true, the repeated occurrence since of 
specimens with a disk more or less yellow nullifies the 
force of the former objection, but the latter remains ; and 
until I see specimens of A. alba from Mr. Cocks’s locality, 
I dare not assume the identity. From original draAvings 
with which that gentleman has kindly favoured me, I per- 
ceive, moreover, that the tentacles in alba are numerous 
and slender, whereas in sphyrodeta they are few, thick, 
and conical. Besides this, the marking of the ten- 
tacles in alba, Avhich are described as “ barred, having 
opafjue white patches anteriorly,” removes the animal from 
any species with Avhich I am acquainted. I am not, 
however, without hope, that before this Avork is closed, 
the kindness of my Coinish friends may bring me into 
personal acquaintance Avitli this, and other desiderata of 
that prolific coast. 
The substitution of another appellation for that AAdiich 
I had at first assigned to this species was called for on Iaa'O 
accounts. First, there was already a species named Candida 
by ^liiller ; of Avhich fact I was not aAvarc. Secondly, 
this name proA^ed objectionable. While no specific name 
may be rejected on account of its ha\’ing no significance, 
CA^ery one ought to be rejected Avhich has a false sig- 
nificance. Mr. IIoldsAvorth’s discoveries of the species at 
Dartmouth and in the Channel Islands have proA’ed, or at 
* Johnst. Br. Zooph. ; Eel. 2; 217. Rep. Cornw. Polyt. Soc. 1851 ; 6, 
